Nadja Rebronja

Nadija Rebronja (Serbia, 1982) is a poet and essayist. She earned her PhD in literature from the University of Novi Sad. As a scholar, she pursued further studies at the Institute of Slavic Studies in Vienna and the Faculty of Philosophy in Granada. Her poetry has been translated into several world languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Polish, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Slovenian. Her work has been presented at numerous important festivals and literary events across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The poetry from her book Dance to the Seas, which was translated into Italian, inspired eight compositions created at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari in 2016. These compositions were later performed at concerts in Italy, Denmark, Poland, and the USA. She has delivered several guest lectures on contemporary literature of the South Slavic peoples at universities in Panama and Colombia, presenting in Spanish. She is the recipient of the multiple poetry awards.

The plan during the residency is to work on a prose text with a lyrical and poetic potential. The project will be realized through attentive listening to the streets and the magical experience of stories from both history and the contemporary world. Travel holds a crucial place in my overall poetics as well as in the literary process, understood as a return to places I recognize as my own. The poetics of the book I plan to develop during the residency examines migration, movement, travel, and the broad experience of perceiving the entire world as one’s home. Simultaneously, it reflects on the complexities faced by women as cosmopolitans, natural nomads who may or may not have a home everywhere, who are welcomed everywhere yet belong nowhere, contradicting traditional expectations. This book’s poetics will question the vastness of space and the experience of specific places as heterotopias. Female characters will be examined through syncretism and their connections with other art forms